Word: setbacks
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Popkin said last night that the new order is "neither a setback or a go-ahead. What they said shouldn't be seen as a plus or a minus: it's just that I have to face the problem again after a few months of peace...
...loss of Golden, who earlier this year missed the B.U. game with injured knee ligaments, is a setback to the defensive secondary, who had a good day stopping the vaunted Columbia serial game last week...
...been properly trained under Nasser to fight an offensive war, Sadat declared-and it had also become too political. "The Egyptian army should have been converted to a fighting army after the 1956 Suez war," Sadat told al Hawadess. Egypt at that point had suffered a military setback, "but we turned it into a political victory" (when President Eisenhower forced Britain, France and Israel to desist in their combined attack on Egypt...
...other hand--in the season's opener against UMass--Harvard displayed a frighteningly passive defense, featuring a porous secondary and a sleepy-eyed linebacking corps that allowed itself to be riddled by the passing of one Peil Pennington, en route to an ignoble 28-19 setback...
...though Parliament has already assented to EEC entry. In Brussels, where news of the vote was received by worried Common Market officials, a feeling of despondent resignation laced the air. "As far as the community is concerned," sighed Common Market Commissioner Jean-François Deniau, "it represents a setback on the way to European unity...